Zip'n Zap (Oric)

ZIPNZAP is an Arcade/Puzzle game for one or two players. 

Each player must clear each screen of a pre-determined number of Tiles in order to progress onto the next level.

Controls

All the controls are shown on the Title Screen. 

Title Screen

• P - Toggle between Two players (default) and One player
• X - Toggle Sound Effects OFF or ON (default)
• M - Toggle Title Music OFF or ON (default)
• SPACE - Starts the game

Left Player (Zip)

• Q - UP
• A - DOWN
• Z - LEFT
• X - RIGHT
• Press the UP+DOWN+LEFT keys. to "die"
  

Left Player (Zap)

• ] - UP
• '  - DOWN
• . - LEFT
• / - RIGHT
• Press the UP+DOWN+RIGHT keys. to "die"

Note: If a One Player game is selected, The game is played by Zip.

System requirements 

The game is designed to run on 48KB Oric computers (such as Oric-1, Oric Atmos and Telestrat models) and supports both tapes and disk drives. 

The download link comes with a pre-configured Windows Emulator ready to run the English floppy version of the game.  In addition, the "Game" folder contains a few alternative versions (such as the tape and French versions) 

Credits 

This game was created by Twilighte (code, design, graphics and music)

Game-Play

A Tile can have one, two or three bars within it. Each successive pass over a Tile will reduce the number of Bars by one until there are no more bars left. Once this happens, the Tile will collapse into the Abyss of space.

 

If a player is unfortunate enough to be standing over such a Tile at this time, then they too will fall into outer space!. A Bar on the scoreboard will show the remaining time a player has got before it collapses.

There are also Builders that will bridge a gap, Switches that will open and close certain doors. The Yinyang will toggle all the doors and a Jump Vortex will transport the player to another one on the same screen. Black Crystals have no obvious purpose other than crediting the player 50 Points to there score.

Doors must only be traversed whilst they are shut, otherwise…

The Score-Board

In green, are the number of lives remaining. The “= 00 =” displays the number of remaining Tiles to be collapsed, whilst the 6 Digits display the players current Score.

 

The centre Red digits show the present Level, whilst the two blue windows issue messages to each player.

During Game-Play, Pressing QAZ for ZIP will cause her to die, useful for getting out of impossible positions!. 

The same applies with ZAP, except the keys are mirrored ]’/

To advance a level when two playing, only one needs to clear the level although the other may be required to help out. There are 15 levels for the one player game and 15 further levels for the two player game so this should keep most occupied for a while.

For Disc users and further levels, See attached ZIPNZAP Level Editor which is included on Disc.

Features

This feature list is probably not impressive for a modern game running on a modern machine, but for a game made by a single developer in 1998 for a 1984 computer running at 1mhz, this is quite a series of achievement!

• Simultaneous Two player or Single Player
• In-game Simultaneous Sample Sound Effects
• 30 Taxing Levels
• Smooth Scrolled Sprites with Full BG Masking
• 48K ,100% Machine code Game
• Hiscore (6 Digit Scores)
• 14.5 Minute 3 channel Sample Title music
• Level Editor included (Disc only)
• Single load Game on Disc or Cassette!
• Turboloader for Cassette Users